CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cumaean Sibyl, Trees In Mythology, Beekeeping

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Associated with the son: loved leucothoe (beautiful white goddess) Apollo and leucothoe have a love affair. This inspires jealousy in clytia (leucothoe sister) Tells their parents and tells them that she has a male lover. Apollo turns her into incense, to keep their love alive. Clytia is turned into the sun flower: moves across the sky and follows the son as her love, punishment. Apollo was in love with cumaean sibyl (can see future: women sense danger and she rejects him, he offers her anything she wants if she loved him. She says she will love him if she can have as many birthdays as the grains of sand in her hand. She was granted her wish, but she grew old and she only became the voice, body went away. Apollo loved daphne: daphne was a perpetual virgin, apollo chased her all the time. Argument between apollo and eros (two archers)